The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-14
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THERE will be no national dsfenses until there
is Congress controlled By the party which de-
Tended the Nation the last time it was necessary.
Philadelphia Press
THE ministers who dispute the soundness of
dying mans theology when hundreds of people
mourning for him only injure themselves
and the creed they avow.-Boston Globe.
ONE week from to-day President Cleveland
will be fifty years old. He really doesn't look it
and sometimes we think he doesn't act it-by
about thirty six years-Minneapos Tribune.
THE Supreme Court of Indiana Yesterday over
ruled the petition for rehearing in Lieutenant
governor Robertson Now, is there any
thing else that Mr.. Green Smith would like to
have to fall on him?-Chicago Journal.
PUT it in any shape that you may the cold
fact still stares you in the face that majority
of the voters of Indiana were swinded out of
their rights by ahandful of Democratic schemers
and bulldozers in the State Senate.-Louisyile
Commercial.
THE Pullman Car Company is increasing the
salaries of its conductors This is all very we'll
but the travelling public would like to see the
Pullman pay its porters better, that they
would not have to extort fees from passengers
in order to make living. Philadelphia Times.
THE ex-Coneressman who has failed of re-
election is as general thing the one who seeks
for public position with the least grace and
the most energy. He seems to think that some
how or other he has right to expect indemnif-
cation from the government. and he not in
frequently gets it.-Philadelphia North Amer
ican
THE Democratic House left s'Cousn Ben Fol-
son." the talkative relative of the Presidents
wife, out of the consular appropriation bill, but
the Republican Senate inserted the Sheffield
consulate with the old salary. But for that
action cousin Benz would have been wan
derer in a foreign land after June 30.-Boston
Journal
THE Anarchists and foreigners sheer at 'spetty
officials in America If these men will return
to the land which gave them birth the petty Of
fcials of America" and all well-ordered citizens
| will be grateful. There ''petty officials
| in Russia, Germany and Austria, and news
| paper press to print their anarchcal mouthings.
Chicago Mail.
| IT is not the strikers, but the applicants for
the places of the strikers. who at the bottom
of the industrial SCALE These are the weaker y
and if sympathy with the weaker determined
the course of the church, it is to these that its
| support would be given When it is transferred
from them to the strikers it is plain that it is de-
termined, not by sympathy. but by fear.-New
| York Times
| THE Democrats of Indiana have behaved in a
/! very brutal way the proposition that any
| thing to beat Harrison was good thing. They
| have not succeeded in getting their man in the
| Senate. and they have made a strong case
| against themselves. We should think also, that
the prospect is they have succeeded in making
| Indiana Republican State-Cincinnati Com
| mercial Gazette.
| JOHN SHERMAN's march to the sea must be
watched with great deal of interest by the
Mulligan statesman. When Johns brother
marched to the sea in GA, Brer Blaine's interest
in the event was felt at distance of several
| hundred miles, but it was decidedly less intense
| than now, for then he protected by bomb
proof. There is no bomb proof in politics-At-
| lanta Constitution.
SUPPOSE the heroic treatment of moral sua-
sion for acknowledgements that the respectable
man who has fallen to sottishness, and is dis
grazing his family and reducing them to beg
| gary oy wasting his substance in drink were
! taken In hand, sobered up, and given dozen
[ lashes on the bare back, with the legal warning
that the next lapse would fetch the same-does
any think that his appetite for drink would
| be Observation-Disclosures Commercial Ca
| zette.
| THE Republicans OF Indiana are preparing to
| fent the battle of 1888 at once. The party is
| harmonious and has skillful leaders. General
| Harrison, who made the great fight of last fall,
practically carrying the Legislature but for